Three studies on post-exertional malaise in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and one on ME/CFS and long COVID have recently popped up. In this blog, we cover them all. The Distinctive Symptom – PEM (Not Fatigue) That “fatigue” in “chronic...
We’ve all heard about the gut-brain axis. That’s where problems in the gut can translate to inflammation in the brain and vice versa but a gut-muscle connection? That’s entirely new. One wonders much further can the gut after all reach? It turns out...
Growing Pains The NIH’s RECOVER Initiative has not exactly been garnering a lot of praise. On the plus side, the NIH has clearly given the project a lot of thought and put together a program designed to produce meaningful results; i.e. results that stick. No...
I found Health Rising a few years ago, but I only started subscribing to receive it in my inbox in mid-2022. Feeling like I had found the best-centralized source of information on long COVID and ME/CFS, I reached out to Cort to make a recurring donation. We got to...
Is the RECOVER Initiative listening to 30 years of experience? Time will tell. The RECOVER Initiative is not just a big deal for long COVID; it’s potentially a very big deal for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome,...
The NIH's Avindra Nath calls the big chronic fatigue syndrome study results fascinating and predicts we will learn much in the next year about long COVID.
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